Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-02-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our ReguIsr Correspondent. j

| 0ACIt flg JUS, duO tellluk Tie Olus OiO
story of their wrongs, just as they
have done in Washington every
successive Winter for nineteen
| years. Many of the faces on the
platform are familiar from their
frequent journeyings to this Mecca
of their hopes, and every year there
are some new ones.
| There is something at once sub
lime and pathetic in their persist
ance. They are undismayed, and
opposition is nothing. Disappoint-
ments are nothing. Yet nobody
knows better than these women
that they have expended a good
deal of their strength upon men of
straw, instead of on their husbands
and sons and brothers.
During the very hour of the open
ing of their convention here, the
Senate rejected their proposed
amendment to the Constitution,
giving woman the right of suffrage,
by vote Of thirty five to sixteen.
The ladies of the convention are
jubilant over this triumph. De
| feat" exclaimed Miss Anthony,
why no, it was a triumph for us.
We have on our SIDE one third of
the United States Senate. This Is
the first time" continued she,
that we ever got vote on our
amendment at ALL We have accom-
plished a great deal in securing
recognition" When asked what
right she had to claim one-third of
the Senate as friendly to woman
suffrage, she picked UP the printed
record of the vote and said: well,
there were sixteen Senators who
voted for the bill. OF the absen-
tees we count on Allison, Aldrlch,
Cameron. Chace, Dawes, Frye, Mil
Ter, Plumb, Sabin, and Stanford as
our friends" She had some doubts
about Harrison of Indiana. There
are eleven of them, who with the
sixteen that voted" said she,
make in all twenty-seven Senators
on our side"
Miss Anthony proceeded with
"ghoulish glee" to state their future
plan of action. In the case of Sen
ators who are known as their oppo-
nents, when they come UP for cleo
ton again, great effort will be made
to prevent their return to the Sen
ate. In Kansas the women would
work for the election of members
to the Legislature who would prem
Use to support for the United States
Senate only some man pledged to
vote for their amendment.
Size mentioned that they had FIVE
hundred women making speeches
throughout the country, and that
Mrs. Frances Willard, who is now
here, was at the head of half a mil
lion women. all pledged to woman
suffrage. These women had dis
covered that tears and prayers were
Intellectual to get rid of saloons
when the mans vote brought the
saloon into existence and they are
with US, said she, because they
want to vote on this one question"
Both Congress and the social
world of Washington have been
busy during the week Besides
dismlssing the woman suffragists,
and disposing of the Canadian
Fishery trouble, by passing the re-
taliatory bill, the Senate again re-
iected Mr.. Matthews, the colored
lawyer from Albany, as Recorder of
Deeds of the District of Columbia
and then settled down to the dis
cussions of Agricultural Expert
ment Stations. The House of Rep
resentatives has given its time to
the consideration and passage of
appropriation bills, and society has
whirled in one incessant round of
gayety.
One of the notable events was
the annual ball at the Chinese Lee
cation. Nothing was left undone
by the distinguished host to make
the affair elegant and complete in
all its arrangements, but the raid
upon the banquet table by a por-
ton of the guests, is the talk of the
town. Nothing like it was ever